Honeydew melons are a sweet, mild fruit, boasting firm, pale green flesh and smooth skin that is almost waxy when the fruit is ripe. Honeydews will not continue to ripen once picked, so it important to leave them on the vine for as long as it needs to mature naturally. Cucumis melo as it is styled in Latin, is a highly nutritious plant. They also taste great, with a distinctive delicious flavour with no sharpness or intrusive bouquet. Each fruit is relatively small compared with their cousins, the watermelons, measuring a comfortable twenty or so centimetres long and weighing between four and eight pounds. The skin is tough, but easily pierced with a sharp knife, while the flesh is, as stated above, firm, becoming softer the longer that the melon is allowed to ripen.